When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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